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Table Manners

An unexpected emerging artist gives new life to still lifes at Cathedral Arts

By Blake de Pastino
Mar 28, 2002

At a time when it feels like there are video news crawlers inching across the base of your brain, and so many images you're subjected to take their meaning from war and austerity, there's something to be said for seeing things at a standstill. Deborah Beresford is here to remind...
Caliente Cool

Feeling the rush with the women of the Arizona Caliente pro football team.

By Blake de Pastino
Nov 22, 2001

They're tied for second in the toughest division in the country. Their rushing game plays out on the field like a fixed-bayonet charge. And their uniforms are flat-out bitchin'. But of all the immediate and inherently cool things that the Arizona Caliente have going for them, undoubtedly the coolest is...
Just Think About Baseball

Sure we're excited. It's the World Series!

By Blake de Pastino
Oct 25, 2001

All at once on October 21, Phoenix found itself home to thousands of fair-weather fans, in addition to its usual crop of diehard D-backers. But with the first two games of the World Series sold out at Bank One Ballpark, we have to find ways to channel our fandom. So...
Healing Arts

Wolfgang Laib lets nature take his course

By Blake de Pastino
Oct 25, 2001

The only thing that was off limits was the outside world.He preferred not to discuss anything that "was going on," the handlers said. He hoped to avoid questions about current events. The thing to keep out of the conversation, they made clear in their own oblique way, was the attack...
The Toxic Sublime

Uncovering the faint beauty of a defaced, degraded American West

By Blake de Pastino
Sep 13, 2001

It'll be 10 years this fall since the Smithsonian Institution turned down the lights on one of the most infamous art shows of the 1990s -- "The West As America," a cynical six-month exhibit that marked the art world's first awkward introduction to the notion of political correctness. The show's...

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